Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Japanese Empire and Universality
The Logic of Genus-Being
From Civilization to Culture in Imperial Rule, 18951919
Practice, Pragmatics, and Norming Space
The Limits of the Human
1. Culturalism and the Human
Culturalism and Cultural Policy
Morality, Life, and the Person: Kuwaki Genyoku
Political Economy and Cultural Economy: The Limit Concept in Sôda Kiichirô
Translating the Human, Communicating Concepts, National Language
Japans Area Studies: Korea as Cultural and Literary Region
2. The Colony and the World: Nation, Poetics, and Biopolitics in Yi Kwang-su
Cultural Reconstruction
Forming Life for Humanity
Cosmopolitan Sentiment and the Role of Literature
Finitude and the Allegorical Novel
Critiques of Cultural Personhood
3. Labor and Bildung in Marxism and the Proletarian Arts
An Uncertain International: Nakano Shigeharu and Im Hwa
Soviet Debates: Unevenness, Anthropology, and Culture
Proletarian Bildung in East Asia: The Cultural Formation of a National Proletariat
Economic Stages of Genus-Being: Paek Nam-un
Proletarian Culture and the East Asian Community
4. Other Chronotopes in Realist Literature
Chronotope and Humanism
Allegory and Realism in Fiction and Criticism
Choe Sŏ-hae: Migration, Letters, and Death
Countryside, City, Primitive Accumulation
5. World History and Minor Literature
The World-Historical State
Osmotic Expression
Choe Chae-sŏ and Peoples Literature: The Crisis of Modern Humanism
Translation as Tactic
Acting Human: The Minor Literature of Kim Sa-ryang and Kim Nam-chŏn
Ambiguous Identities: Into the Light
6. Modernism without a Home: Cinematic Literature, Colonial Architecture, and Yi Sangs Poetics
Modernist Temporality and Imperialism
The Ecstatic Time of Cinematic Literature: Choe Chae-sŏ and Yokomitsu Riichi
Culturalism and Architectural Space: Korea and Architecture
Yi Sangs Cinepoetic Space: Blueprint for a Three-Dimensional Shape
Notes
Appendix
Opening an Umbrella on Yokohama Pier/Im Hwa
Blueprint for a Three-Dimensional Shape/Yi Sang
Selected Bibliography
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